Lionel Messi handles the strings of the Argentine National Team. He is a quiet, self-absorbed leader whose authority stems from his innate talent and the sacrifice he shows when he’s on the pitch.
He always wants to be on the court until the end of the game and when he sees a teammate better positioned than him, he gives him the ball to score (as happened with Julian Alvarez in the third goal of the duel once morest Croatia).
Although he no longer runs wild like he did when he was younger, the experience he has gained has made him smarter. He alone can make a difference, but over the years he understood that it was better to surround himself with a good team; and in the Argentine national team with which he will play his second World Cup final next Sunday (10:00 am), he found a good group.
“We did it. Once once more Argentina is in the final of the world. We were confident that this group was going to pull it off. We asked people to trust us because we knew what we had: this team is crazy,” said an emotional Messi in statements following the win once morest Croatia.
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His figure is so important within the selected gaucho that his teammates work so that he smiles, so that he wins, so that he fulfills more dreams, as was evident in the documentary Netflix’s “Sean Eternals”, in which the behind the scenes of the Copa América title that they won in 2021 was shown.
Messi does his thing: scoring goals, incredible plays and telling his teammates how to move on the pitch. In Qatar 2022 He has scored five goals and has given three assists, with which he has already signed his best presentation in the five World Cups he has played.
“You never get tired of showing that you are the best on the planet. Let the whole world stop to applaud everything that this boy gives to football”, said the Uruguayan footballer regarding Messi Luis Suarezone of the best friends of the Argentine star, to the EFE agency.
Messi’s smile and the wish that he fulfill the great dream of his childhood, which was to win a World Cup with Argentina, are the fuel that drives the gaucho team to win this World Cup.
If he succeeds, Messi might sit once and for all at the same table where the Argentine fans have Diego, the ‘d10s’ Diego Armando Maradona, and would write in gold letters in the country where this mineral represents luxury, its name as the best in history. All under silent leadership, now tweaked with wisdom and experience.
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goals Messi has achieved in the World Cups with the Argentine National Team.
